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1. ISRAELIS AT ALL LEVELS ATTRIBUTE RESPONSIBILITY
FOR MARCH 5-6 TERRORIST ATTACK IN TEL AVIV TO FATAH
ORGANIZATION AND, BY DIRECT AND EXPLICIT CONNECTION,
TO ARAFAT.
2. CABINET COMMUNIQUE RELEASED AT NOON MARCH 6
(TEL AVIV 1476 - NOTEAL) SAID: "THE CRIMINAL ACTION
OF FATAH MEMBERS IN TEL AVIV AGAIN TESTIFIES TO THE
MURDEROUS AIMS AND METHODS OF THE TERRORIST ORGANI-
ZATIONS.." INVOLVEMENT OF FATAH, AS DISTINCT FROM
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CONFIDENTIAL
PAGE 02 TEL AV 01526 071313Z
MORE NEBULOUS PLO, WAS ALSO UNDERSCORED IN TELEVISION
INTERVIEWS BY BOTH DEFMIN PERES AND DIRECTOR OF
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE GAZIT. (WORTH NOTING THAT
GAZIT TOOK PAINS TO AVOID ANY IMPLICATION THAT
EGYPT WAS IN ANY WAY INVOLVED IN OPERATION). IN
PUBLIC STATEMENTS MOREOVER, PM RABIN REITERATED THAT INCIDENT
PROVED CORRECTNESS OF GOI DECISION NEVER (RPT
NEVER) TO NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS.
3. PRESS HAS PROVIDED HARD REMINDERS TO ISRAELIS
THAT FATAH IS ARAFAT'S OWN FACTION WITHIN PLO AND
MANY COMMENTATORS DRAW CONCLUSION THAT TEL AVIV
OPERATION CONSTITUTES DEPARTURE FROM POLICY PURSUED
BY FATAH IN RECENT PAST OF AVOIDING OPERATIONS
INVOLVING HOSTAGES. TYPICAL TREATMENT IS IN JERUSALEM
POST WHERE, UNDER HEADLINE "ARAFAT'S FATAH
REJOINS EXTREMISTS", ARAB AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
WRITES THAT ATTACK IN TEL AVIV "HAS REINSTATED
YASSER ARAFAT IN THE EYES OF HIS RADICAL OPPONENTS
WITHIN HIS PLO". INSOFAR AS PRESS ALSO GIVES
COVERAGE TO STATEMENT BY ABU IYAD (REFTEL),
IT IS PRIMARILY IN CONTEXT OF DESCRIBING HIM AS
DEPUTY TO ARAFAT, THEREBY UNDERSCORING
OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY OF LATTER.
4. CONCLUSION BEING DRAWN BY ISRELIS IS WELL
REPRESENTED IN PERES TELEVISION INTERVIEW EVENING
OF MARCH 6 (FBIS TA062039), IN WHICH DEFENSE MINISTER
SAID: "FIRST, ARAFAT SAID HE IS AGAINST THE MURDER
OF PEOPLE. TODAY WE HAVE SEEN WHAT HIS WORDS ARE
WORTH. SECOND, WHOEVER HAD ANY DOUBT THAT FATAH
DOES NOT SEEK POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS, BUT STERILE
AND MURDEROUS DEMONSTRATIONS FOR WHICH THEY ARE
RECEIVING MUCH MONEY, SHOULD HAVE SEEN FURTHER
PROOF OF THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS ORGANIZATION
LAST NIGHT,..THIRD, FATAH TRIED TO CREATE AN
IMPRESSION THAT THERE ARE MODERATES AND EXTREMISTS
IN IT AND THAT ARAFAT IS THE KING OF THE MODERATES.
THE OPERATION THIS TIME WAS CARRIED OUT BY
FATAH ITSELF, NOT BY ONE OF ITS UNDISCIPLINED
PARTNERS IN THE COLAITION. THIS, TOO, IS AN
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
PAGE 03 TEL AV 01526 071313Z
INNOVATION. I THINK THAT ISRAEL CAN DEFINITELY
SAY TODAY THAT ITS BASIC POSITION RECEIVED NEW
SUPPORT THIS MORNING--THAT IS ITS POSITION THAT
THE FATAH IS NO PARTNER TO NEGOTIATIONS."
5. COMMENT: ANY CLAIM TO RELATIVE MODERATION
WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO ARAFAT HAS BEEN
NEGATED FOR ALMOST ALL ISRAELIS BY SAVOY HOTEL INCIDENT.
IT IS HARD HERE TO CONCEIVE THAT EVEN CLEAR
PUBLIC DENUNCIATION OF THIS SPECIFIC OPERATION BY
ARAFAT PERSONALLY WOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO ENABLE HIM TO
BE ACCEPTABLE TO ISRAELIS IN FORESEEABLE FUTURE AS MEMBER
OF NEGOTIATING TEAM, HOWEVER CONSTITUTED.
KEATING
CONFIDENTIAL
NNN

Raw content

CONFIDENTIAL
PAGE 01 TEL AV 01526 071313Z
53
ACTION NEA-09
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 NSCE-00 USIE-00 INRE-00 CIAE-00
DODE-00 PM-03 H-02 INR-07 L-02 NSAE-00 NSC-05 PA-01
PRS-01 SP-02 SS-15 SCCT-01 SY-05 AID-05 IO-10 OMB-01
/070 W
--------------------- 067393
O 071215Z MAR 75
FM AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5889
USDEL ASWANIMMEDIATE
INFO AMEMBASSY BEIRUT
AMEMBASSY AMMAN
AMEMBASSY CAIRO IMMEDIATE
AMEMASSY DAMASCUS
AMCONSUL JERUSALEM
AMEMBASSY JIDDA
AMEMBASSY KUWAIT
C O N F I D E N T I A L TEL AVIV 1526
E.O. 11652: GDS
TAGS: PINS, IS, PLO
SUBJ: RESPONSIBILITY FOR TERRORIST RAID IN TEL AVIV
REF: BEIRUT 2985
1. ISRAELIS AT ALL LEVELS ATTRIBUTE RESPONSIBILITY
FOR MARCH 5-6 TERRORIST ATTACK IN TEL AVIV TO FATAH
ORGANIZATION AND, BY DIRECT AND EXPLICIT CONNECTION,
TO ARAFAT.
2. CABINET COMMUNIQUE RELEASED AT NOON MARCH 6
(TEL AVIV 1476 - NOTEAL) SAID: "THE CRIMINAL ACTION
OF FATAH MEMBERS IN TEL AVIV AGAIN TESTIFIES TO THE
MURDEROUS AIMS AND METHODS OF THE TERRORIST ORGANI-
ZATIONS.." INVOLVEMENT OF FATAH, AS DISTINCT FROM
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
PAGE 02 TEL AV 01526 071313Z
MORE NEBULOUS PLO, WAS ALSO UNDERSCORED IN TELEVISION
INTERVIEWS BY BOTH DEFMIN PERES AND DIRECTOR OF
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE GAZIT. (WORTH NOTING THAT
GAZIT TOOK PAINS TO AVOID ANY IMPLICATION THAT
EGYPT WAS IN ANY WAY INVOLVED IN OPERATION). IN
PUBLIC STATEMENTS MOREOVER, PM RABIN REITERATED THAT INCIDENT
PROVED CORRECTNESS OF GOI DECISION NEVER (RPT
NEVER) TO NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS.
3. PRESS HAS PROVIDED HARD REMINDERS TO ISRAELIS
THAT FATAH IS ARAFAT'S OWN FACTION WITHIN PLO AND
MANY COMMENTATORS DRAW CONCLUSION THAT TEL AVIV
OPERATION CONSTITUTES DEPARTURE FROM POLICY PURSUED
BY FATAH IN RECENT PAST OF AVOIDING OPERATIONS
INVOLVING HOSTAGES. TYPICAL TREATMENT IS IN JERUSALEM
POST WHERE, UNDER HEADLINE "ARAFAT'S FATAH
REJOINS EXTREMISTS", ARAB AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
WRITES THAT ATTACK IN TEL AVIV "HAS REINSTATED
YASSER ARAFAT IN THE EYES OF HIS RADICAL OPPONENTS
WITHIN HIS PLO". INSOFAR AS PRESS ALSO GIVES
COVERAGE TO STATEMENT BY ABU IYAD (REFTEL),
IT IS PRIMARILY IN CONTEXT OF DESCRIBING HIM AS
DEPUTY TO ARAFAT, THEREBY UNDERSCORING
OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY OF LATTER.
4. CONCLUSION BEING DRAWN BY ISRELIS IS WELL
REPRESENTED IN PERES TELEVISION INTERVIEW EVENING
OF MARCH 6 (FBIS TA062039), IN WHICH DEFENSE MINISTER
SAID: "FIRST, ARAFAT SAID HE IS AGAINST THE MURDER
OF PEOPLE. TODAY WE HAVE SEEN WHAT HIS WORDS ARE
WORTH. SECOND, WHOEVER HAD ANY DOUBT THAT FATAH
DOES NOT SEEK POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS, BUT STERILE
AND MURDEROUS DEMONSTRATIONS FOR WHICH THEY ARE
RECEIVING MUCH MONEY, SHOULD HAVE SEEN FURTHER
PROOF OF THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS ORGANIZATION
LAST NIGHT,..THIRD, FATAH TRIED TO CREATE AN
IMPRESSION THAT THERE ARE MODERATES AND EXTREMISTS
IN IT AND THAT ARAFAT IS THE KING OF THE MODERATES.
THE OPERATION THIS TIME WAS CARRIED OUT BY
FATAH ITSELF, NOT BY ONE OF ITS UNDISCIPLINED
PARTNERS IN THE COLAITION. THIS, TOO, IS AN
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
PAGE 03 TEL AV 01526 071313Z
INNOVATION. I THINK THAT ISRAEL CAN DEFINITELY
SAY TODAY THAT ITS BASIC POSITION RECEIVED NEW
SUPPORT THIS MORNING--THAT IS ITS POSITION THAT
THE FATAH IS NO PARTNER TO NEGOTIATIONS."
5. COMMENT: ANY CLAIM TO RELATIVE MODERATION
WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO ARAFAT HAS BEEN
NEGATED FOR ALMOST ALL ISRAELIS BY SAVOY HOTEL INCIDENT.
IT IS HARD HERE TO CONCEIVE THAT EVEN CLEAR
PUBLIC DENUNCIATION OF THIS SPECIFIC OPERATION BY
ARAFAT PERSONALLY WOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO ENABLE HIM TO
BE ACCEPTABLE TO ISRAELIS IN FORESEEABLE FUTURE AS MEMBER
OF NEGOTIATING TEAM, HOWEVER CONSTITUTED.
KEATING
CONFIDENTIAL
NNN